Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Anna Karenina Crime and punishment Catch-22 One hundred years of solitude Wuthering Heights The Silmarillion Life of Pi : a novel The name of the rose Don Quixote (more than halfway through thanks to Edith Grossman)Moby DickUlysses Madame BovaryThe OdysseyPride and prejudiceJane Eyre A tale of two cities The brothers KaramazovGuns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies War and peaceVanity fair The time traveler’s wifeThe Iliad Emma The Blind AssassinThe kite runner Mrs. Dalloway Great expectations American gods : a novel A heartbreaking work of staggering genius Atlas shrugged Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books Memoirs of a GeishaMiddlesex Quicksilver Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West …The Canterbury tales – part way through after the last Beeb updatings…The historian : a novel A portrait of the artist as a young man Love in the time of cholera Brave new world The FountainheadFoucault’s pendulum Middlemarch FrankensteinThe Count of Monte CristoDracula A clockwork orange Anansi boys : a novelThe once and future kingThe grapes of wrath The poisonwood Bible : a novel 1984 Angels & demonsThe inferno The satanic versesSense and sensibility The picture of Dorian Gray Mansfield Park One flew over the cuckoo’s nest To the lighthouseTess of the D’UrbervillesOliver Twist Gulliver’s travels Les misérablesThe correctionsThe amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay : a novel The curious incident of the dog in the night-time Dune The prince The sound and the fury Angela’s ashes : a memoir – someone bought me it as a present. I persevered through duty. Then I was taken to see the bloody film. God it was depressing.The god of small things A people’s history of the United States : 1492-present Cryptonomicon Neverwhere A confederacy of dunces A short history of nearly everything Dubliners The unbearable lightness of being Beloved : a novelSlaughterhouse-five The scarlet letter Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation – what an irritating book, and worst was I was given two copies as Christmas presents. The mists of AvalonOryx and CrakeCollapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed Cloud atlas : a novel The confusion Lolita PersuasionNorthanger abbey The catcher in the rye On the road The hunchback of Notre Dame (45)FreakonomicsZen and the art of motorcycle maintenance The AeneidWatership DownGravity’s rainbow The Hobbit In cold bloodWhite teeth – The Zadie Smith phenomenon leaves me cold. A friend was at University with her and wasn’t a fan.Treasure IslandDavid CopperfieldThe Three Musketeers

Zadie Smith makes my teeth hurt! And life’s too short to read The Silmarillion. I started listening to the audiobook of it when I had a long commute to work; Martin Shaw intoning all those names beautifully nearly sent me to sleep and into the path of an articulated lorry on the M5 . . .
I recommend A Confederacy of Dunces. And I have Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell sitting on my shelf. Wonder if it will ever get read ;o)

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